Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADEHow delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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